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Ruler
of
peace
betzvean
man
and
man.
46
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honourable,
this
would
be
a
mighty
furtherance to peace,
be-
leeve
it,it
is
fo
:
I
t
is a
great part of
tile honor
of
God
to
begin
to
be
reconciled
to us,
io
faith
the
Scripture,'God
was in
Chrift
reconcilr=ng
the
!svorrld
unto hirnfelfe,
he
was
in
Chrift,
yea he was
from
all
eternityin
Chri(t: Alas,
if
God
had
not begun with
us
we
ihould
have
flood
out with him
to
all
eternity:
Mankind
would
have
been
an
enemy
to
God
eternally,
if
Cod
had nor
'begun
with him
to
be reconcil'd
firff, now
ís
it
the
honour
of
God to beginwith
us
poore
creatures,
and
is
it
not
the honour
of
his
creature,,
to begin with
his
fellow
creature,
thou
fayefü,
Let
him
come
to
nie
and
yeeld
to me, I
am his
better,
or he
bath done
nae
the
wrong, and
the inferiour
ought
to
yeeld;
if
Lod
had flood
out with
you
upon thefe
termes,
and had fard
let
the
creature
yeeld,
which
is
the inferiour,
and
any
crea-
ture
that bath
been unjuft,
and
done me wrong,
and
what
would
become
of
you
?
Well,
would
you
be
call
d the child
of God,
then be
Lich
a
peace
-maker
as
'jod
is,begin the work
of reconciliation
firft:
If
another doth begin, you have
loll
the
honour
of
ir, and loft
a
great part
Of
the reward of
it,
it's
no thank; when
anotherbegins to
be
at
peace, that then
you
come
in
:
My
bafe
fpirit
can
be brought to
that, but
if
you
for
peace
fake can
yeeld to
an
inferiour,
and feek
icfirfl:
O
this
is
honourable in
the
eyes
of
God,
and in
the
eyes
of
man:that's a
fourth
rule.
Fifthly
,
Look
to
breaches
betimes,
when
there
is
any
breach
between
you and
another,
its
a
general rule
that
con-
cerns
States, Yhurches,
Neighbours,
Farailyes
;
where,
there
is
any
breach, begin
to
flop
the breach betimes,
let
it
not go
far
before
you
come
in
with help
againftit
:
Contention
and
(+rife
is
compared
in
Scripture
to
the
breach
of waters, and
where
there
tsa
breach
of waters,
'tis not
to
Band and look
up-
on
it,
andfay,
hereafter
I
will flop
ir,
but
it
concerns
thee to
flop
it
prefently,
you know
not what
the,
end of
it
may
be
Very
great
breaches doe come often with, very
littlé
begin-
flings,
and
a
little
at the
firfl, would be
á
means
to
help
very
great
evils,
that
afterwards great
means will
not
help
:
That's
a
further rule
of
peace.
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